beached.
i was taken to Discovery Park today for the first time. i hadn’t really been planning on leaving the confines of the apartment, going on two weeks at this point (such a role-reversal to the last, oh, thirteen years of my life).
anyhow, i was walking on the beach near the lighthouse (for Skedaddleites, i’m hoping you know the place better than i do). low tide was in, and the shore went on for a bit. i i was lamenting garbage on the beach (such a bum note to see) and i found a “waterproof” disposable Kodak camera.
allegedly, one can take pictures underwater using this camera. whatever. but something struck me as odd: had it been used and lost recently, i’d wait for the nearest rubbish bin and toss it in there.
but the printed “develop by” expiry was December 1999. there was a wee bit of moisture contained between the hard plastic shell and the cardboard box inside.
so, now i sit and wonder: in 98% likelihood, the film is damaged from moisture. if, in the remote chance that a three-plus year-expired disposable camera washed ashore (since, given how obvious the location i found it, someone would have long since picked it up by now) with 27 exposed shots on it survived in part all this time (after all, the ambient water temperature probably never gets above 10°C/50°F around here, with daytime highs never really getting “hot”), some portions of the captured images may have remained intact.
also, i’m keeping in mind that these pictures are something banal, like of snapshots of trailer-park folk gettin’ all shutterbug-Man Ray on some goofy, gauche Carnivore Cruise late in the previous milennium.
still, some questions persist, and this is where you kids come in:
still, i don’t have money to process the roll right now. i wonder where the cheapest place to develop a roll could be? hmmm.